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[erastes]

1. Can I just go SQUEEE for a moment and say that next week's Doctor Who looks like it's going to Rock like a big rocky thing? And Jack's back!  But it looks brilliant even without that. So rocky, you could break it open and it would have ROCK all through the centre.

2. If there's anything much sexier than the Sandman in Regency clothes, I don't know what it is.

3. Oh!! I meant to pimp this before! lee_rowan - who wrote the lovely Ransom has a sequel out - it's been out as an ebook for a few weeks but now the print version is out - and WINDS OF CHANGE is even better than Ransom.  Go and BUY it. You will not regret it, and if you haven't read Ransom, buy that too, because Winds of Change is the sequel, even though it can stand on its own.  It's based in the late 18th Century, in the golden Age of Sail and Lee knows her subject, her depth of knowledge of ships and the sea is very very impressive. and there's man sex. What could be nicer?

4  Dan Brown, you are a PLANK.  If your character gets into a plane in Boston and you tell the reader that the plane is flying 11,000 miles an hour and after ONE hour you would have gone almost 11,000 miles wouldn't you?  So why is he only in Geneva? Hmm? Plank plank plank.

4a. And while I'm smacking you around the head, you can't sense an expression on someone else's face. You Moron.

4b. And incidentally, how did you get away with writing the same book twice? I think someone might notice if I did that.

4c. And why am I reading it?  *self loathing*

5. WHY am I not receiving any email? No LJ notifications, which makes me think there's other stuff missing.  *smacks the net*

6. Has anyone read Children of Hurin?  Is it worth getting?

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[hell-san.livejournal.com]

3.have every intention of getting ransom >< just have a really long check list im getting through. will nab once the piles gone down a teeny bit - its int he basket. just waiting for me to cave to the temptation when procrastination alls :P will get sequel too

4. *sniggers*

6.ive not got hurin. almost got it for my dad for his birthday but decided to get something else as its his son whos written part of it and ive heard to much about how its going to be a hit or miss kind of thing. So im going to wait till its been out a bit before seeing what the responce is like. was hoping some other work mates might have read it but as of yet noone seems to be interested despite the great sales on it. *shrugs*

[julesjones]

Ah. Must phone/email predatrix with death threats on the subject of recording the next few episodes of Who and burning them to DVD. :-)

You know you've got the hots for an actor when you think that one of the best reasons for writing something you could actually flog to tellyland is not the piles of dosh, but the opportunity to have an input on the casting...

[erastes.livejournal.com]

The good thing about books is that they are around for a long time, lets hope!

Hmm. Hurin is probably one of those books that everyone has to HAVE - like Silmarillion but no-one's REALLY read.

*G*

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Jack! Squee! Jack and the New Doctor!

I'm over-excited.

However I've just remembered I have to wait two weeks.

Eurovision Song Contest next week. Bah.

[lareinenoire.livejournal.com]

Oh, Regency!Dream is lovely. And I'm glad I'm not the only one who realised that The Da Vinci Code is *exactly* the same book as Angels and Demons, just set in a different city. I read the two back to back and was very puzzled, especially since I found I enjoyed A&D more. That being said, I was reading them in one-hour chunks over lunch between classes so it proves they don't need much in the way of attention span.

His writing style really is awful, isn't it?

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Truly truly awful. I utterly loathe infodumping.

It's bad enough in historicals when you read "Marie walked across the exquisite red and blue Persian carpet her father had bought in Katmandu to sit down on her waring and gillows chair and opened the chippendale escritoire which was beautifully decorated in ivory and ebony, a style that was becoming very fashionable"

but to read the same kind of info dump in a modern "thriller" is ghastly.

[aperfectscar.livejournal.com]

1. Jack isn't back for ages though *cries* That was a trailer for the rest of the series, not the next episode (unless the cast lists are lying)

4. Is Angels & Demons the one with the Pope? Because it really is the same.

And I've been reliably informed that all the science is complete bollocks. And planes that go that fast don't exist.

6. No idea about Children of Hurin but it's quite cheap at Tesco's, got it for my dad for his birthday but that's not until next week.

[melora98.livejournal.com]

YES!!! That ep is going to rock so hard. And I'm all perturbed about the waiting for two weeks, but man, those guys at BBC sure know how to work us for the anticipation, don't they??? YIKES. ^_^

*joins in squeeage*

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

You should go over to mylodon and get on her friendslist.. she's got a X-universe Hornblower/Torchwood that's great fun. Y'know how Paul McGann played both Dr Who and Mr Bush...? *GGG*

Thank you for the kind words--I'd quote O'Brian about pos feedback from a good writer, but I can't remember exactly what he said.

I'm casting John B and his sweetie as the leads in my story for the trilogy--it's always easier with a familiar face...

[welshbard.livejournal.com]

4. There was no good reason to fly them that goddamn fast. If they need to fly fast, put them on the fucking Concorde. At least it exists, even in mothballs.

4b. After reading Angels and Demons and watching Da Vinci Code, I agree. I hope I can write a poorly written novel, publish it twice with a few minor variations, hit the bestseller list, and get a movie made of one. Rowling at least was a good writer with a good story, characters, excellent world-building, and then she made a gazillion dollars.

4c. After reading the Da Vinci Code? I have no idea. I only read Angels and Demons to the end because I had to find out if it got better. It didn't.

My deal with Dan Brown's stuff is that his conspiracy theory is crappy. Totally unsatisfying for the conspiracy buff, totally incomprehensible to the layman.

[julesjones]

It'll be interesting to see how Jack deals with this strange man in the Tardis...

[zehavit-lamasu.livejournal.com]

Hahah - Dan Brown *cringe* >_< .

He is only one in a great tradition of authors who write the same book over and over... my dad hates me when I say this but... John Grisham only ever wrote one book in my opinion - he just wrote it a lot of times!

And I read more than one Dan Brown so I can feel justified at ripping into him ... but the experience was painful... and this comes from a woman who enjoys reading repetitive trash ¬_¬.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

That was a bloody fraud then, making me think he's back, when he's NOT until the last 3 epis as I've just found out.

Grrrrr.

And yes, the one is Rome. My library has so little reading material and I have to take what I can find - it's TINY smaller than my living room (I have better books too, perhaps i should start a library). To get the books I want means a reservation fee of 55p a book which irritates me as I can often get the books for 1p from Amazon!!! And yes, I looked that plane up, they scrapped the development. Idiot. I hate him.

I'll have a look in Tescos, thank you!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I can almost swallow a plane that goes 3000 miles an hour, and that would have taken an hour, but to state it goes 11,000 miles an hour and then only to go 3000 in an hour although travelling at 11,000 an hour - making a point of it - is enough to make me throw the book across the room.

I'm only reading it because my library is so tiny (smaller than my living room) and has nothing i want to read. A preponderance of Danielle Steel, Catherine Cookson and a ton of people I've never heard of.

I hate the info dumping and the way he makes intelligent people (his cast) into idiots so he can explain stuff to the reader. I find it incomprehensible that these people have never heard of the illuminati - people who INVENTED the WWW - it's ludicrous.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I started a Grisham the other day "the summons" but it's so flipping dull I can't be bothered to read on.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Bah. Just found out he's not back for weeks.

Grrrr.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Done! Friended her!

Aw shucks. You deserve it.

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

I had the same reaction to Grisham--and Stephen King. I suppose the opposing argument is that any genre fiction has a degree of sameness to it, and sometimes I'll pick up a favorite author (Elizabeth Peters, for instance) because I know she'll do her particular thing in a particular way--but she always has something new in each book. !

As to the whole conspiracy theory re: the catholic church... The vatican politics are so peculiar I could believe almost anything--they didn't even apologize for supporting Hitler until just recently, and the current pope is involved in some corporate organization that the Bush family's also involved with. Truth's probably stranger and scarier than fiction.

Hey, you want a weird conspiracy theory? Brown was hired by the dominionists to make all their schemes sound boring. 8-P

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Brown was hired by the dominionists to make all their schemes sound boring. 8-P

Best theory ever!